Thanks to a Quebec based labor-sponsored fund, Fonds de solidarite FTQ, $8 Million has been invested in video game company, 7GEntertainment, in order to aid video game job creation. They will use the money to launch their video game hosting and publishing services, helping to create about 100 new gaming jobs over the next 2 years.
The deal was announced by Fond de Solidarite (Solidarity Fund) just one week after the video game company well known for its Tomb Raider franchise announced a huge expansion into Montreal. This expansion is set to create approximately 250 video gaming development jobs by 2015. This means that video game producer Eidos will receive a $2 million boost from the Quebec government.
According to CEO, Anthony Brown, ”For 7GEntertainment, the city is an ideal economic environment for the publishing and hosting services we provide.”
In Ontario, funds have also been invested to help job creation in the southwestern area. A total of $20 million will be allocated each year towards job creation. This announcement was made by Premier Dalton McGuinty during a tour of Digital Extremes, a London based game developer. He praised Digital Extremes for their achievements on becoming one of the top video game developers. “I’m not known for going to extremes,” McGuinty joked, “but this company is emblematic of the creativity and hard work Ontario can harness.”
President of Digital Extremes, Mike Schmalz, commented, “This is a really big deal for London and a really big deal for our company. We’re going up against the best the world has to offer. This is the best team in the industry.”
While job creation will see some video game jobs being offered, many manufacturing jobs are also expected to be made available with money from the fund. If you want to learn more about video game jobs including video game programming, development jobs, gaming animation jobs, game designer jobs, video game sound engineer jobs, video game background artist jobs and many more, you should visit Video Game Job Finder today and become a member.
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